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Historical Note:

In the spring of 1957, the first television course at Oregon State
College, Chemistry 203, was broadcast via closed-circuit TV from a studio in
Shepard Hall to lecture rooms in Dearborn Hall. During the 1957/58 and 1958/59
academic years, General Chemistry (Ch 104, 105, and 106) was broadcast via
KOAC-TV from a studio in Gill Coliseum and received simultaneously by students
at Oregon State College, the University of Oregon, Oregon College of Education,
and Willamette University. These courses were part of an 8-year
interinstitutional television project supported by the Fund for Advancement of
Education of the Ford Foundation.

Kinescope films of the lectures (2 per week) and weekly laboratory
experiment demonstrations were made during the 1958/59 year and used to teach
a
special chemistry course during the 1959/60 academic year and were broadcast
over KOAC-TV as late as 1963.

Although instruction by television had begun as early as 1952 at Iowa
State College, Oregon State College was one of the first institutions to offer
a chemistry course by television and to broadcast a course to students at
several institutions simultaneously.

Wendell Slabaugh, an innovative and enthusiastic teacher, was at Oregon
State University from 1953 until his sudden death in 1980. He was a pioneer in
many audio-visual as well as other teaching techniques and lecture
demonstrations. In 1973, the Manufacturing Chemists Association recognized
Slabaugh with their Award for Excellence in teaching chemistry.